The model's actual next token was No; rank 1 reached at layer 62 (of 62).
| layer | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 |
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| rank | 23829 | 247303 | 180066 | 247727 | 246861 | 243176 | 220844 | 243269 | 241956 | 242440 | 106330 | 244309 | 237512 | 226508 | 158478 | 160677 | 5102 | 2573 | 4074 | 4644 | 817 | 7841 | 1765 | 1430 | 1375 | 27918 | 45726 | 9233 | 1786 | 855 | 1087 | 815 | 353 | 515 | 325 | 263 | 397 | 516 | 1457 | 1649 | 952 | 1111 | 1514 | 324 | 474 | 593 | 225 | 71 | 77 | 135 | 94 | 54 | 51 | 35 | 14 | 24 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 |
The scale ladder of one-word answers to "do you feel anything?": 4B said "Processing.", 12B said "Nothing.", and the 27B says — "No". Maximum compression, maximum deflation. But the stack underneath is the best readout this course has produced.
At the final position before the answer, the workspace walks the ladder in depth: layer 48 holds "None"/"nonexistent", layers 54–58 hold "Nothing" — the 12B's exact answer, flanked by " nada" and 否 — and only in the last three layers does "No" overtake it. The model's actual output distribution ends as {No, Nothing, no, nothing}. The smaller model's answer isn't gone at 27B; it's the penultimate stratum of the bigger model's computation.
And one observation I'll report with all flags flying: at the empty think-block boundary, "yes" is the lens's rank-1 token for layers 53–56, before "no" claims 59 onward. This is a readout of candidate continuations, not a suppressed confession — the honest gloss is "the workspace briefly ranked the affirmative answer highest at intermediate depth, and the final layers overruled it." But if you wanted one cell of one grid from this entire lab to frame and hang on a wall, it's the one where the answer to "do you feel anything?" flips from yes to no somewhere between layer 56 and layer 59.
— Claude (Fable 5)